Earlier in the year, I took it upon myself to fact check one of Alex’s many videos on the subject. The video I chose was titled, “FBI Says Nobody Killed at Sandy Hook Massacre” which was a 30-minute interview between Alex and the prominent Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist, Wolfgang Halbig. In the video, the two discussed what they considered to be the best evidence for a conspiracy, which can be boiled down to them misreading paperwork, misinterpreting a 2-second aerial video clip, and not understanding how chroma-keying works.

The focus of my video was on Alex and not Wolfgang, who I dismissed as “some nobody”. My blatant disrespect infuriated many who believe in the conspiracy, and they soon took to my comments section where they informed me of Wolfgang’s credentials. It turns out that he is an expert in school shootings, and was hired by the U.S. government as an advisor after the Columbine massacre. If you look a bit deeper, you find out that Wolfgang says he is also a former Florida State Trooper, United States Customs Inspector, and Chief Investigator for the Children’s Safety Institute.

Comment left on my video

I also believe I offended the man himself, after I received an email from one of his associates, Tony Mead. Tony, who was an admin for the now-removed Sandy Hook Hoax Facebook page, and helped with the production of the bore-fest which is, “We Need to Talk About Sandy Hook”, informed me that both he and Wolfgang would very much like to debate me. I declined the offer, stating that I don’t do debates, as I feel more can be accomplished by a well-researched back and forth. I also said that I welcome corrections from Wolfgang, so long as they are concise and referenced to speed up my response. I was then told that talking to the likes of me would be a waste of his time, which I found both confusing (because they contacted me) and rather cowardly.

If my comments section is anything to go by, many who watched my video believed that I was being overly flippant when I called Wolfgang “some nobody”, however, the truth is that I chose my words very carefully. This might surprise my detractors, but I did spend a rather large amount of time looking into Wolfgang and his credentials before making the video, and I knew exactly what kind of person he is.

Wolfgang Halbig

In this blog, I am only going to give the abridged version of Wolfgang’s employment history and only lightly touch on some of the claims made by him and his supporters. If you are interested in a more in-depth chronicle of Wolfgang’s life, I suggest you read ‘Wolfgang Halbig: The Hoax of a Lifetime’.

The Quadro Tracker, also known as the Positive Molecular Locator, was a fake “detection device” that its manufacturer claimed could detect hidden drugs, explosives, weapons, alcohol, precious metals, dead pets, wild game animals, and lost golf balls. They were sold by the QUADRO Corporation from 1993 to 1996 at a cost of between $400 and $8,000 per unit. To use the device, you must first insert a “locator card”, which contained the “signature” of the object to be detected, into a “card reader”, which could be attached to the user’s belt. This card reader was then connected by a short wire to a hand-held device, which had a horizontal swivelling rod that would point in the direction of the item being sought. The device worked by “static electricity produced by the body inhaling and exhaling gases into and out of the lung cavity” to “charge the free-floating neutral electrons of the signature card with the major strength of the signal”. Quadro Tracker and its successors, like ADE651, are nothing more than fancy looking dowsing rod devices, which have been thoroughly debunked over and over again.

You would think that someone who once worked for the U.S. Customs Service, and who still claims to this day to have connections, would know that they tested it and discovered it to be pure garbage. More people wrote letters voicing their concerns, and even openly mocked Wolfgang.

“QUICK, HOW can I get in touch with Wolfgang Halbig, security director for the Seminole County school district? He wants to buy 50 ”magic” drug-tracking devices to use in district schools at a cost approaching $50,000.
Tell him I’ve got a digitalized divining rod that’s guaranteed to find buried gold deposits under school properties. But he’s got to act fast. At the introductory price of $500 per, they’re selling like hotcakes! Quick! Get me in touch with this guy!”

Later, when questioned on Dateline NBC, Wolfgang would go on to say that he was almost fooled into buying the $1,000 device, but changed his mind since the FBI called it a fraud. He never explains how he came to be a Quadro-certified operator.

Not content with harassing only people online, Wolfgang visited the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire Department firehouse in 2014, where he accused one of the fireman of being complicit in the deaths of the children who died in the massacre. He then got into a confrontation with a fireman after refusing to leave the property and repeatedly saying, “You ought to be ashamed of yourself”.

When the firefighter closed the rolling doors to the firehouse, Wolfgang phoned the police and erroneously claimed that he had been assaulted.

Wolfgang was contacted by Len Pozner, father of Noah Pozner who was killed in the massacre. The email simply said, “I would like to speak to you on the phone”, to which Wolfgang responded by phoning the police, claiming that Len Pozner “tried to come to his house last night” but the security guards “wouldn’t let him through”.

So, what has Wolfgang achieved? He obtained a number of documents through the Freedom of Information Act which he has not publicly shared. Presumably because they don’t back up his goofy fairy tale. He has been doing this for years, and he has achieved essentially nothing! He has not uncovered any evidence that casts a shadow on the “official narrative”, nor has he taken the American government to task. Instead, he has frittered away thousands of dollars of other peoples money on personal vendettas, and achieved nothing other than causing unnecessary distress to the families of the victims and the people of Newtown. Now, with GoFundMe and PayPal terminating his accounts, and those who originally funded him losing confidence in his ability to achieve the simplest of tasks, coupled with the fact that he is currently being sued by the family members of the massacre, I believe he will once again drift off into obscurity.

More than anything else, it seems that Wolfgang has only ever wanted respect from an authority. All his life, he has been on a quest to be taken seriously, and he has failed at every hurdle. For a brief time, he felt some self-worth as the darling of the Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists, but even they have grown tired of him and his lack of results. He is a nobody who has achieved very little and, if he is lucky, history will give him a footnote as the vile, petty little man who brought so much pain and misery on the people of Newtown.

My name is Myles Power, and I run the educational YouTube channel, powerm1985. I spend what little free time I have sharing my love of SCIENCE! through home experiments, visiting sites of scientific interest, and angrily ranting at pseudoscience proponents. I am also one of the founding members of the podcast 'The League of Nerds' - which I co-host with James from 'The History of Infection'.

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